Tool for applying tips to laces



T. P. MULDER` TOOL FOR APP'LYING TIPS T0 LACES.

APPLICATION FILED ^UG.5, 1918.

1,339,217. Patented May 4,1920'.

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TOOL FOR APPLYING TIPS TO LACES.

Application filed August 5, 1918.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THoMAs I). MULDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city and county of Kalamazoo, State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tools for Applying Tips to Laces, of which the following'is a specification.

This invention relates to a tool for applying tips to laces.

My improved tool is especially designed by me for applying tips to shoe laces and for use in retail shoe stores, although it is adapted for use in applying tips to other forms of laces and may be readily adapted and I contemplate its use in several relations.

The main objects of this invention are:

First, to provide a tool for applying sheet metal tips to laces and by means of which the tips are applied so that there are no proj ecting longitudinal edges.

Second, to provide a lacing tip applying tool by the aid of which tips may be applied to laces from which they have become lost or where it is desired to reduce the length of the lace or by means of which laces may be conveniently formed from a spool or roll of cord.

Third, to provide an improved lacing tip applying tool `which is very simple and economical in structure and convenient to use.

Further objects, and objects relating to structural details, will definitely appear from the detailed description to follow.

I accomplish the objects of my invention by` the devices and means described in the following specification. The invention is clearly defined and pointed out in the claims.

A structure which is a preferred embodiment of my invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, in which:

Figure I is a side view of my improved lacing tip applying tool.

Fig. II is a detail top view.

Fig. III is a detail side. elevation looking from the top of Fig. II.

Fig. IV is a detail longitudinal section on a line corresponding to line le-4f of Fig. II.

Fig. V is an enlarged detail section showing a lacing tip and lace arranged within the tool, the jaws being open.

Fig. VI is a similar detail section with the Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented May 4, 1920.

Serial No. 248,274.

ijaws closed and the tip clamped upon the lace.

Fig. VII is a perspective view of one of the lacing tips.

In the drawing, similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views, and the sectional views are taken looking in the direction of the little arrows at the ends of the section lines.

Referring to the drawing, I provide a body' member 1, preferably a sheet metal stamping, having side flanges 2 and 3. A handle 4 is formed integrally with the body member and is channel-shaped in cross section, the flanges 2 and 3 being extended into the side members of the handle. At the front end of the body member I provide a rearward facing hook-shaped female jaw 5. This, in the embodiment illustrated, is formed integrally with the body member, it being formed by turning the end of the top of the body member upwardly and rear- A coacting reciprocating male jaw member 6 is mounted upon the body member to reciprocate thereon, being slotted at 7 to receive the headed bolt 8. The body member has a central longitudinal slot 9 to receive the downturned lug 10 on the end of the jaw 6. A spring 11 is connected at one end to a lug 12 struck in from the handle and at its other end to this lug 10 so that the jaw 6 is normally held in retracting position by the spring. When in retracted position the face of the jaw 6 is in a spaced relation to the bill or overhang of the jaw 5 so that the work may be laid between the jaws.

The bottom of the jaw 5 has a longitudinal rib 13 and is curved at 111 at each side of the rib so that when the U-shaped clip 15 is arranged upon a lace, as 16, with its open side inward and forced in by the jaw 6 the edges 17 of the tip are turned inwardly and embedded in the tip as shown in Fig. VI. The tip illustrated has the usual teeth or projections 18 formed in the bight thereof by indentations. The face 19 of the jaw 6 is transversely curved.

A knife 20 is secured to the side of the body in connecting relation to the jaw 5, that is, it extends across the open edge thereof so that as the jaw 6 reciprocates it coacts with this knife to sever the lace. i

An actuating handle Q1 is pivoted at 22 and provided with upwardly projecting lugs 23 disposed through slots 24, shown by dotted lines in Fig. II, to engage notches 25 in the edges of the jaw G so that when this handle is rocked on its pivot the jaw G is forced into the jaw 5 or the jaws are closed. With this arrangement it is only necessary to place the U-shaped tip on the lace and place on the tool between the jaws and the actuation of the jaw 6 carries the lace and tip into the jaw 5 severing the projecting end of the lace and clamping the tip upon the lace as shown in Fig. VI. rI`he edges of the lace thus embedded in the tip provides a very secure engagement for the tip with the lace and also Vprovides a tipl which has no rough or projecting edge or any edge which is likely to engage with an object and thus open or loosen the tip.

My improved tool is economical to produce and is capable of very rapid and convenient manipulation. It may be practically used for applying tips to the frayed ends of laces from which the tips have become lost or to shorten the lace; also in the manufacture of laces from lengths or spools asV may be desired. l Y

My tip applying tool is of very material advantage in retail stores as it avoids the necessity of carrying laces of various lengths and is economical and, in addition, the tool is of decided advantage in the repairing of laces from which the tips have become detached.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isz` v l. In a lacing tip applying tool, the combination of a body member provided with a handle and having downturned side flanges and central and side longitudinal slots and a liXed rearwardly facing hook-shaped jaw formed integrally with the body member by turning the endthereof upwardly and rearwardly, a longitudinally slotted reciprocating jaw adapted to enter said fixed jaw and having a downturned lug disposed in said central slot of said body member and notches in its edges above the side slots thereof, a bolt engaging the longitudinal slot of said reciprocating jaw whereby it is slidably retained on said body member, actuating lever pivoted between the flanges of said body member and having `lugs disposed through the side slots thereof engaging the side notches in said reciprocating jaw, and a spring arranged on the insi le ofV the body member handle and secured at one end thereto and at the other to said lug` on said reciprocating jaw wherebythe jaw is normally retracted, said jawrwhen retracted being in a spaced` relation to the fixed jaw so that the work may be laid between the jaws.

2. In a lacing tip applying tool, the combination of a body member provided with a handle and having downturned side ianges and central and sidelongitudinal slots Aand a fixedrearwardly facing hoolcshaped jaw, a reciprocating jaw mounted on said body member and having a downturned lug disposed in said central slot of said body inember and notches in its edges above the side slots thereof, an actuating lever pivoted between the flanges of said body member and having lugs disposed through the side slots thereof engaging the side notches in said reciprocating jaw, and a spring arranged on the inside of the body member handle and secured at one end thereto and at the other to said lug onV said reciprocating aw whereby the jaw is normally retracted.

' 3. In a lacing tip applying tool, the cenibination of a body member provided with a of said body member and having lugs dis-V posed through the side slots thereof engaging the side notches in said reciprocating jaw, and a spring arranged Ven the inside of the body member handle and secured ne end thereto and at the other to said lugV on said reciprocating'jaw whereby the j aw is normally retracted. j Y

fl. In a lacing tip applying tool, the eoirbination of a body' member, a Yxedrearwardly facing hook-shaped jaw overhanging the body member, the bottom of the jaw having a central rib ,and beingcurved at each side thereof, so that when aV U-shaped open tipis forced into the jaw with its open side inward, the edges of the tip are turned inwardly sidebyfside to engage a lace lisposed therein, a reciprocating jaw adapted to enter said fixed jaw, there being a space on said body member between said jaws when the reciprocatingjaw is retracted on which the laceand tip may be arranged t i 

